100mbps Fiber Service To Your Door

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100mbps Fiber Service To Your Door

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday March 12, 2003 @08:16AM from the somebody's-door-anyhow dept.

BitHive writes "With all the talk on /. about the last mile, it looks like people in Mason County, WA may get what I've wanted for years--a 100mbps fiber connection straight to their home. The ISP, DONOBi claims the personal account is 'unlimited,' but since they don't allow servers, and have a business account which is capped at 5Gb/month ($3/Gb addtl), I think we can guess at what their idea of 'unlimited' is. Their service offerings can be found here. Is anyone on this service or knows something they can report?"

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Well... by SpanishInquisition · 2003-03-12 08:18 · Score: 4, Funny

The mail system was the best way to deliver high quality porn to your house, but now with this..

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Hurrah! by JanusFury · 2003-03-12 08:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Getting fiber to my door is cool, but when will they get it to my living room? I don't have a plug for my computer at the door :(

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fiber? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-12 08:19 · Score: 5, Funny

i get enough fiber as it i...excuse me i have to go to the bathroom.
Re:First (?) by jaavaaguru · 2003-03-12 08:33 · Score: 3, Funny

5Gb per month? If they really are talking about gigabits and not gigabytes, then that is somewhat ridiculous. Oh boy, I can download one CD image (of a piece of software I already have, of course) per month. What a great service.

Why do that when you can download one that you don't already have?

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Wow that's fast! by sconeu · 2003-03-12 08:40 · Score: 2, Funny

100mbps? Wow! 100mbps is 1 bit every 10 seconds! I can talk faster than that!

Now, a 100Mbps connection, that I could get excited about!

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1. Re:Wow that's fast! by tkg · 2003-03-12 09:20 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Wow! 100mbps is 1 bit every 10 seconds!
  
  Still faster than my dialup. Damn crappy phone lines.
Re:Servers by Billly+Gates · 2003-03-12 08:45 · Score: 2, Funny

"ISP's industry's belief that all their little users must be good little consumers and not actually use their service for anything but browsing the web and e-mail."

Hmmm, kind of interesting that isp's also are in the webserving bussiness. Whats that Pxtl? You want your own server? Sure, for an extra $30 a month we can give you a website with 30 megs of disk space.

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With a blowup doll, who needs Internet? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-12 09:15 · Score: 1, Funny

With a blowup doll, who needs Internet?
Re:Available in Japan for two years now by ag0ny · 2003-03-12 13:46 · Score: 2, Funny

I live in Tokyo and have a 100Mbps B-Flets line since August last year. I'm paying $230/month (27000 yen), with no restrictions of any kind. I have my own server at home, and neither uploads nor downloads are capped.

I was a bit sceptical at the beginning, but my ISP confirmed the 'no restrictions' part after I emailed them.

Of course, porn is ilegal here in Japan, so I guess that's the reason why they have no problem in allowing customers to set up their own server.

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